i3 Scholars started 2016 off with a bang. A total of eight projects were submitted to conferences in the last six months and all were accepted for publication. Projects covered a wide range of topics and methods. i3 will have its largest showing ever at iConference 2016, hosted by Drexel University, with 19 Scholars and four research advisors in attendance to present six projects. Full abstracts of iConference projects will be available in the conference proceedings.
Projects accepted to iConference 2016:
- #ReproHealth: A State-Based Investigation of Reproductive Rights Policy and Social Media Activity
- The Customer is Always Right: Analyzing Existing Market Feedback to Improve TVs
- Sex Offenders and Interoperability in E-Government: A Qualitative Analysis of SORNA Compliance in Florida and Texas
- Hacked: A Qualitatitve Analysis of Media Coverage of the Sony Breach
- Beyond Childhood: Mobilizing Applications for Adults with Autism
- The Role of Cognitive Maps in Familiarity and Wayfinding (abstract will be made available in iConference 2016 proceedings)
Projects were also accepted at CSCW 2016 (ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing) and IEEE SeGAH 2016 (International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health). This year marks the first time that i3 research projects have been submitted to either conference.
Cristina Robles Bahm, PhD candidate at the iSchool at Pitt, worked with i3 2013 alum, Josue Reyes, to rework their project, “Crowdfunding: Applying Collective Indexing of Emotions to Campaign Videos,” and submit it to CSCW. Dmitriy Babichenko, Pitt iSchool Professor of Practice, led his team’s effort to submit their project, “Designing the Model Patient: Data-Driven Virtual Patients in Medical Education” to SeGAH. Congratulations to all i3 Scholars and research advisors on their hard work and success!